Perhaps the press release could include an accurate description of what abiword does do (and a small note that it does not do tables).
I agree that at this point it might be unwise to hit mainstream news sources. did Aiken ever manage to make anything of his Abiword on a CD idea? I would love to be able to burn a handful of cheap CDs and give them out. Also if you like i can take the release binary and compress it with UPX for those who want to try and cram abiword on a floppy disk. Sincerely Alan On 6 May 2002, Hubert Figuiere wrote: > Date: 06 May 2002 15:42:54 +0200 > From: Hubert Figuiere <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: AbiWord Dev List <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: Maybe we shouldn't spam the world with the 1.0 release > announcement? > > On lun, 2002-05-06 at 14:48, Jesper Skov wrote: > > There's some truth to be found in Joel's text here: > > > > http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/PickingShipDate.html > > > > 80% of those reading the announcement with download AbiWord, find that > > it doesn't have tables, and will never ever touch it again. > > > > I'm sure enough people, who are not judging a product by features they > > don't use anyway, will find and start using AbiWord 1.0, even without > > announcing it all over the place. > > I confirm that. I think I should agree with Jskov. Wait for 1.2 with > Table and other stuff to announce our product to the world. > > Announcing 1.0.1 on SF, freshmeat and other free-software oriented is > fine. Upload them to major software archives (even for Windows) is. > > > Hub >
